Perl 5 is evolving rapidly with new stable releases being produced more frequently. The vision is to allow Perl 5 to continue evolving while maintaining backwards compatibility. This may involve externalizing features into modules, allowing different versions of Perl semantics based on version declarations, and moving to saner defaults over time through longer deprecation cycles. The goal is to ke
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